Video: Giant Wardrobes in High Point, North Carolina, USA
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
High Point town in the US state of North Carolina has rightfully earned a reputation as the "furniture capital of the world." It is here that the furniture industry has flourished for over a century. The main attraction of the city is two giant dressers. The original art objects, of course, have become a kind of symbol of High Point.
The first Big Bureau dresser was built in the 1920s with the assistance of the city's chamber of commerce. The design is similar to a typical linen closet, about 20 feet tall, with wonderful decorative carvings on the drawers and gold-tone hardware. In 1951, the building was sold to the humanitarian organization High Point Jaycees, whose office was located behind the "closet". In 1996, the "wardrobe" was remodeled, its height was 38 feet, and from one of the compartments gigantic "socks" 6 feet long appeared. By the way, this detail did not appear by chance: in High Point, the textile industry is also very developed.
The second "wardrobe" appeared on the streets of the city much later, in 1999. It is an 85-foot dresser, more than double the height of an old-fashioned bureau. It was made of polystyrene foam by order of the furniture factory Furnitureland South. True, this is not a separate art object, but the original design of the facade of one of the shopping centers.
By the way, the idea of creating giant furniture is not new. Readers of the site Kulturologiya. RF will probably remember the huge "come to life" chairs and dressers from the Italian designer Umberto Dattola.
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